16 posts tagged alzheimer's society

It’s now been three months since Martha Sr died. You’d think by now that I’d be caught up on sleep. You’d be wrong. As I look over the last few month’s posts I note that time and again that I mention sleep. It is still the default that I want more, more, more.

When I went away to college in 1976, I took with me the small black & white television I had received for my eighth birthday. Mostly my roommates and I would watch The Muppet Show before going off to dinner. Otherwise, I really didn’t have the time for television - there was studying to do, drugs and alcohol to abuse, sex to have.

New studies suggest that heavy smoking leads to earlier onset of Alzheimer’s. Huh? What was i saying? ~ There are four early signs of aging. The first is memory loss. The second, third, and fourth signs I can’t remember. ~ Danica Patrick won the Indy 300 in Japan.

Scientists in the US discovered that elderly people who had no mental decline had larger brains than Alzheimer’s patients, even though their brain tissue showed signs normally associated with the disease. The discovery is being presented this week at the American Academy of Neurology meeting in Chicago, by researchers from the Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) in Portland.

According to a research presented at the 28th Annual Conference of the American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery, a non-invasive laser procedure that uses laser-induced scatter and fluorescence measurements to detect a specific protein that accumulates in the brain and eyes of Alzheimer’s patients has shown favourable results in laboratory work.

Too often we read news reports like... Robbery leaves pensioner shaken A woman in her 80s has been left shocked following a robbery at her south Belfast home. It happened at about 1630 BST on Monday at Lille Park in Finaghy. A man dressed in a high-visibility vest restrained the pensioner before searching the house.

By Kari Larson Having a large gut in midlife increases the chance of dementia in old age, according to research published Wednesday [03/26/2008] that suggests that abdominal fat is a bigger risk factor than family history.

It is enlightening, if sometimes dismaying, to discover what sorts of things motivate people. I have found that one of the most reliable ways of doing this is to see what sorts of motivations they perceive in others - what motives they attribute for a given behaviour. Case in point: our caring for Martha Sr.

Drugs 'kill 23,000 Alzheimer's victims a year' Extracts from the Telegraph: "More than 23,000 elderly people with Alzheimer's could be dying prematurely in care homes each year after being given drugs to keep them quiet, a report claims today.

The Supreme Court on Monday let stand a federal policy that allows employers to reduce their health insurance expenses for retired workers once they turn 65 and qualify for Medicare. In which may have been the last time Erie County did anything to try and save taxpayers money, the county offered